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fiddle

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1. fiddle - Noun

2. fiddle - Verb

3. fiddle - Interjection

Meaning

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.

A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

To play on a fiddle.

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave of the sea. William Butler Yeats

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. Charles Spurgeon

I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle - And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. Edgar Lee Masters

The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune. Irish Proverb

A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune. Zimbabwe Proverb

There are many a good tune played on an old fiddle. Namibian Proverb

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